Interoute

Interoute is a telecommunications operator and owner of a Europe-wide voice and data network. Interoute is concerned with the management of business critical infrastructures. These include dedicated hosting solutions and network services. Your own Next Generation Network, the company uses for technology-independent location networking, VoIP and cloud services. The latter are available mainly as a video as a Service and Infrastructure as a Service. Interoute is the owner of the Sandoz Family Foundation.

The Company

Interoute operates across Europe and offers its business customers ICT solutions. The company operates 21 metropolitan area networks (MAN) in European cities and cooperates with local network operators. In Germany Interoute maintains MANs in Berlin, Dusseldorf, Frankfurt, Hamburg, Munich and Stuttgart. Here, the company operates under the name Interoute Germany GmbH. In Austria and Switzerland, the company is represented by MAN in Vienna, Meyrin and Zurich. For clients in the banking sector Interoute operates through its network automated trading. Lately positioning as a cloud provider with video conferencing services and virtual data center.

History

1995

• Founded as a telecommunications provider

2000 - 2002

• Restructuring the network and service operators
• Acquisition of Virtue Media creates the basis for the CDN of the provider

2005

• Dubai Holding is investing € 120 million in the company
• Acquisition of PSINet Europe and VIA net.works

2007

• Over 51 degrees in London and PI.SE in Sweden

2008

• 6 submarine cable landing station connects the island of Malta to the network

2009

• Port of Tunisia, East and South Africa submarine cable to Interoute's network

2010

• Connection of Turkey to Interoute's network

2011

• Acquisition of KPN German fiber network
• Acquisition of Swedish videoconferencing provider VCG

2012

• Connection of Israel to Interoute's network

2013

• Introduction of a cloud -store offer. Second block, next to Virtual Data Centre and Network for European cloud services platform
• The Süddeutsche Zeitung revealed that Interoute under the code name " Streetcar" the British government agency GCHQ helped to transmit data to their customers for the tenses program.

Infrastructure

• 60,000 km long fiber optic network in Europe with presence in Dubai, North Africa and links with the USA and the Middle East.
• 10 data centers in major European cities
• Network connecting 100 cities in 29 countries
• German offices in Kleinmachnow near Berlin, Dusseldorf, Hamburg, Frankfurt and Ismaning near Munich.

Customers

Its customers include national and international companies such as Bayer, BMW, German Post, Nintendo, Rossmann, Sony Music, Vodafone.